UBIFS volume corruption (bad node at LEB 0:0)

Kyungmin Park kyungmin78 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 23:24:45 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Adrian Hunter
<ext-adrian.hunter at nokia.com> wrote:
> Kyungmin Park wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Artem Bityutskiy
>> <dedekind at infradead.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 23:13 -0500, David Bergeron wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting some sort of volume corruption problem with UBIFS after
>>>> doing
>>>> rootfs updates using rsync.
>>>>
>>>> I've cooked up a minimalist test trying to eliminate possible
>>>> interference.
>>>> The following steps will trigger the corruption almost every time.
>>>> No
>>>> errors
>>>> or warnings are produced during this procedure, every step behaves
>>>> as
>>>> expected:
>>> David,
>>>
>>> we think we've fixed this bug. The reason was that when mounting RO,
>>> then re-mounting read-write, the orphan sub-system was not properly
>>> initialized. The fix is available at the ubifs-v2.6.28.git tree. I've
>>> back-ported all stable changes and fixes to the tree. You need this fix:
>>>
>>> commit b3718eedf4ab91307f64a79ad8eb911ca401bd22
>>> Author: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter at nokia.com>
>>> Date:   Mon Jan 26 10:55:40 2009 +0200
>>>
>>>    UBIFS: ensure orphan area head is initialized
>>>
>>>    When mounting read-only the orphan area head is
>>>    not initialized.  It must be initialized when
>>>    remounting read/write, but it was not.  This patch
>>>    fixes that.
>>>
>>>    [Artem: sorry, added comment tweaking noise]
>>>    Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter at nokia.com>
>>>    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
>>>
>>> However, I recommend you to incorporate all UBI/UBIFS changes since
>>> 2.6.28, because there were other bug-fixes.
>>>
>>> You may find information about back-port trees here:
>>> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_source
>>>
>>> Please, send us some feed-back about whether your problem has been
>>> solved.
>>>
>>
>> I got the similar problem with orphan node handling. with this patch,
>> it's solved. but there are strange ones.
>>
>> I boot with ubifs with ro mode. and then I remount it as rw. after
>> some work, I remount it as ro. at that case.
>> It displayed "Device busy" so I can't change the mode. Did you have any clue?
>
> Speaking of orphans, it is not possible to remount rw->ro with files that are
> pending for deletion on any file system e.g. open file, unlink it, try to
> remount ro => device busy error.  The unlinked file must be closed first so
> that the file system can delete it.
>

It seems that. the normal operation is okay. but some complicated
operation doesn't.
I try to do and give more descriptions.

Thank you,
Kyungmin Park



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